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Beyond tariffs: how Switzerland turned trade talks into climate action with Mercosur

This content was published on Jul 18, 2025 After eight years, EFTA and Mercosur have a deal. But with such agreements facing public scrutiny, negotiators were keen to include protections – including environmental ones.

Elephant robot designed using a bio-inspired 3D printing method

Research frontiers

Lausanne scientists create 3D-printed elephant robot

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 Researchers at the EPFL in Lausanne have managed to create a robot elephant using a 3D-printable lattice structure.

The destructive force of debris flows better understood

Climate solutions

Swiss research explains dynamics of destructive debris flows

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 For the study, a team led by ETH Zurich analysed a June 2022 debris flow in Valais with unprecedented precision.

A nuclear power plant in Switzerland shown between dark clouds and bright rapeseed fields.

Emissions reduction

Risks remain as Switzerland weighs return to nuclear power

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 Switzerland reconsiders nuclear power amid climate goals, but experts warn of hidden risks that show the complexities of clean energy today.

The Gösgen nuclear power plant in canton Solothurn is one of three still in operation in Switzerland.

Emissions reduction

Why climate change and wars are reviving interest in nuclear energy

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 Is the Fukushima effect over? Here's why there is renewed interest around the atom and which nations want to build new nuclear power plants.

Research frontiers

Switzerland is Europe’s most innovative country, EU study finds

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 In the European Commission's annual ranking, the Swiss score dropped slightly in 2025, but not enough to cost it top spot.

Agreement reached on Belpmoos solar plant

Climate solutions

Planned solar park at Bern airport scaled back after talks

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 The ground-mounted plant at Belpmoos Airport will be smaller than originally planned, the parties involved said on Tuesday.

A crack in a ski lift structure in the Swiss Alps caused by thawing permafrost.

Climate solutions

New hope for cable cars and mountain huts threatened by permafrost collapse

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 A novel scientific solution being developed in Switzerland aims to stabilise mountain infrastructure endangered by climate change.

In recent years ski resorts at lower altitudes have had to re-think their tourism offers due to the lack of snow.

Climate adaptation

Climate change puts Swiss tourism to the test

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 Climate change threatens tourism in Switzerland - and is partly caused by it. How can the industry become more sustainable?

Stabilising permafrost in the Swiss Alps

Climate solutions

Permafrost thawing: protecting endangered mountain infrastructure in the Swiss Alps

This content was published on Jul 16, 2025 Elizaveta Sharaborova, a Swiss-based researcher, explains how her solar-powered prototype can stabilise thawing permafrost threatening Alpine infrastructure.

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